oases
- plural of oasis.
Example Sentences
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Oases are important habitats and water sources for dryland regions, sustaining 10% of the world's population despite taking up about 1.5% of land area.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024
The project “has brought a new method to help preserve our khettaras by using remote sensing,” according to Lhassan Elmrani of the Center for the Study and Development of Oases and Desert Areas.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 19, 2023
Our recent coffee-table non-fiction study of protected habitat worldwide, "Sanctuary: Global Oases of Innocence," with a Foreword by Her Majesty the Fourth Queen of Bhutan, and nearly 900 color photographs, can be sampled at: www.sanctuary-thebook.org.
From Forbes • Oct. 3, 2011
Oases are islands of fertility surrounded by sand.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2010
As the day wore on, Holmes bought them chocolate and lemonade and root beer at one of the Hires Root Beer Oases that dotted the grounds.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
